Comparison

Lawn Tracker vs Yard Champ

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lawn Tracker

Easily track your lawn's health with this app. Monitor grass growth, mowing, watering, and treatments. Plan nutrition, measure your yard, and view your progress with a calendar and journal.

Highlights
  • Grass growth tracking
  • Mowing and watering schedules
  • Treatment planning
  • Lawn measuring tool
  • Calendar and journal views
  • Reminders and weather data
  • Material and equipment calculators
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Lawn care made easy. It will track your grass growth, mowing schedule, watering schedule, and treatments to ensure your lawn is healthy, thick and green. Start logging and watch your lawn takeoff. Some of the features are: Treatment schedule to help you plan and apply needed nutrition to your lawn, Lawn measuring tool to help you get the size of your yard, Calendar view to see when you mowed last, watered last or applied a treatment last, Journal view to keep track of your progress, mowing stats, watering stats, treatment plans, calculators, set reminders, & weather data to help you know when to water or hold off for rain. There are also various calculators to help with purchasing needed material and equipment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Yard Champ

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Yard Champ turns your phone into a personal lawn-care advisor. Snap a photo, get a score, get a plan. That's it. WHAT YARD CHAMP DOES • AI Lawn Analysis — Take a photo. Claude AI scores your turf 1–10 and tells you exactly what's going wrong (and right). • Weed, Pest & Disease ID — Spot something off? Photo-ID it in seconds with confidence ratings, treatment options, and prevention tips. • Fertilizer Schedule — Built around your grass type, climate zone, and season. Mark each feeding done and get reminded for the next one. • Yard Advisor Chat — Ask your yard anything. The AI already knows your grass type, zones, recent activity, and health history. • Smart Watering — Calculate exactly how long to run each sprinkler zone. Auto-adjusts for forecast rain. • Activity Tracker — Log mows, feeds, treatments, and watering. See your lawn's trend over time. PLAN AND TRACK YOUR LAWN Set up zones (front, back, side), tell us your grass type and square footage, and Yard Champ does the math. Health scores graph over time. Trophies celebrate the milestones — first analysis, ten mows, a perfect 10. WEATHER-AWARE Local 7-day forecast on the home screen. Tips and watering advice adapt to what's coming. NO ACCOUNTS. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. • Free forever: Tracker, Planner, Water Calculator, Lawn Profile, Health History. • Free with limit: 5 AI analyses per month. • Yard Champ Pro ($6.99 one-time): Up to 150 AI analyses per month. No subscription. No login. No email harvesting. Your lawn data stays on your device. IMPORTANT Yard Champ uses AI to give general lawn-care guidance. It's not a substitute for a licensed pesticide applicator, an arborist, or a soil test. Treatment recommendations are starting points — always read product labels, check local regulations, and consult a pro for serious pest, disease, or chemical-application decisions. Made by a homeowner, for homeowners. Questions? mdubsgmail@gmail.com

Screenshots

Lawn Tracker4 screens
Yard Champ4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lawn Tracker and Yard Champ are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lawn Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month and Yard Champ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lawn Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Yard Champ every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Lawn Tracker versus Yard Champ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLawn TrackerYard Champ
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew BangsMike Wilson

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Lawn Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Multiple Lawns1 Month trial$5.491 Month
One-time5
  • Developer Support Level 1$2.99
  • Donate Now$3.99
  • Developer Support Level 2$5.99
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  • Developer Support Level 3$9.99
  • Ad Free Use$9.99
1 purchases

Yard Champ

One-time1
  • Yard Champ Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Lawn Tracker free?
Lawn Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yard Champ free?
Yard Champ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lawn Tracker or Yard Champ have ads?
Neither Lawn Tracker nor Yard Champ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lawn Tracker or Yard Champ?
Lawn Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Yard Champ every 8 days. Most recently, Lawn Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Yard Champ on October 25, 2026.

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